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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 6:12 pm Post subject:

The easiest way I've found to use the pic.twitter.com/xxxxxxxxxx format is to copy it then "paste and go" it into the URL space at the top of your preferred browser page. (I use Firefox).
I'd be happy to learn an even easier way._________________There are two kinds of people.

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Call me biased, mistaken, or whatever else you will, but to me there appear to be more images appear from twitter of "contract work" locomotives, than images of work on SVR locomotives progressing in the works...?

Call me biased, mistaken, or whatever else you will, but to me there appear to be more images appear from twitter of "contract work" locomotives, than images of work on SVR locomotives progressing in the works...?

Rob

I suspect that most of us would prefer to have news of work on SVR locos but isn't the use of Twitter to show pictures of contract work just a form of advertising by Bridgnorth to win more contracts? After all, income from these contracts provides part of the funding for our own overhauls._________________Buffer

I dont know whether or not prospective contract work customers visit the twitter site. To my mind the problem there is that there is so much other discussion, often nothing to do with the SVR, for instance at the moment, discussion about the local football team, and at times you get regular weather updates etc.
I agree there are pictures of work in progress, but does the twitter site really "sell" what SVR Engineering's full range of services is? I dont think so.
The SVR Engineering "shop window" should be their website that lists all the services they offer.
Sadly the news section of that site has not been updated since July 2013.

I dont know whether or not prospective contract work customers visit the twitter site. To my mind the problem there is that there is so much other discussion, often nothing to do with the SVR, for instance at the moment, discussion about the local football team, and at times you get regular weather updates etc.
I agree there are pictures of work in progress, but does the twitter site really "sell" what SVR Engineering's full range of services is? I dont think so.
The SVR Engineering "shop window" should be their website that lists all the services they offer.
Sadly the news section of that site has not been updated since July 2013.

*Off topic*
I would think a great many prospective engineering customers look at the Twitter site, if indeed they don't already follow SVR Engineering. Social media like Twitter is all about retweeting and the like, meaning there will be conversations that include the weather and other things not strictly related to the SVR. I should think it means the SVR Engineering team can engage with possible customers and enthusiasts in a way not possible on a website. The regular photos of contract work are almost certainly intended to do exactly what Buffer describes - sell the services offered and showcase the high quality work. At least the website was updated in the past year! That's more than some websites can manage.
*Back on topic*

Good to see SVR Engineering have won this contract though._________________Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

I dont know how Twitter works, so I didn't realise that two parties (ie SVR Engineering and a prospective customer) could have a private conversation via this media about a possible contract. I thought it was a sort of open forum that anyone could see.
Maybe it is more convenient than picking up the phone.

I agree, good news that this contract has come to Bridgnorth. With the additional boilershop staff now in place, presumably contract work and SVR work can run alongside, without one delaying the other.